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4-letter words (2 found)

DIME,IDEM,

3-letter words (6 found)

DEI,DIE,DIM,IDE,MED,MID,

2-letter words (7 found)

DE,DI,ED,EM,ID,ME,MI,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 16 words from idem according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of idem

idem

English

Alternative forms

  • id. (abbreviation)

Etymology

From Middle English idem, borrowed from Latin idem (“the same”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɪ.dɛm/, /ˈaɪ.dɛm/

Pronoun

idem

  1. The same.

Usage notes

  • Used almost exclusively in footnotes of academic or scholarly papers, especially those of the legal profession, to indicate that the source or author referred to in a footnote is the same as in the preceding footnote; usually abbreviated when so used.

Related terms

Translations

See also

  • ditto
  • ibidem, ibid.

Further reading

  • idem on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

  • Demi, Diem, Dime, IMed, demi, demi-, dime, meid

Dutch

Pronunciation

Adverb

idem

  1. idem, ditto

Anagrams

  • meid

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin idem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /i.dɛm/

Adverb

idem

  1. idem, likewise
    Synonym: id.
    pour moi c'est idem ― it's all the same to me

Further reading

  • “idem”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • demi, dîme

Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Dutch idem, from Latin idem (“the same”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɪ.dəm/, /ˈɪ.dɛm/

Pronoun

idem

  1. idem

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “idem” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Anagrams

  • demi

Italian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈi.dem/
  • Rhymes: -idem
  • Hyphenation: ì‧dem

Adverb

idem

  1. ditto, and so, likewise, also

Pronoun

idem

  1. ditto, the same

References

Anagrams

  • dime, medi

Latin

Alternative forms

  • eidem (frequently in manuscripts and inscriptions)
  • isdem, eisdem (rarely)
  • īde (Late Latin, proscribed)

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *izdim; equivalent to is (“he”) + Proto-Italic *-im (emphatic marker) (whence Sabellic *-om, Oscan 𐌝𐌔𐌝𐌃𐌖𐌌 (ísídum), 𐌄𐌔𐌝𐌃𐌖𐌌 (esídum)), from Proto-Indo-European *im (whence also Old Latin im, em), accusative singular of *éy (so both parts are from the same source). The s was lost and the i lengthened by compensatory lengthening.

When is' ablative cases eōd, eād became eō, eā, idem's ablative true forms eōd-em, eād-em were interpreted as eō-dem, eā-dem. The neuter nominative singular id-em is natural. De verborum significatione gives emem as a form of the later eundem.[1] The new marker -dem then served to create totidem, tantundem, ibīdem, etc. Compare tam-en with its later doublet: tan-dem (← *tam-dem).

Pronunciation

  • (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈiː.dẽː], [ˈɪ.dẽː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈiː.d̪em]

Pronoun

īdem (feminine eadem, neuter idem); demonstrative pronoun (with m optionally → n in compounds) with an indeclinable portion

  1. the same
    • 29 bc. Virgil. Georgics, III
      amor omnibus īdem
      Love is the same for all

Declension

Irregular declension. Similar to the declension of is, ea, id. Demonstrative pronoun (with m optionally → n in compounds) with an indeclinable portion.

1The nom./dat./abl. plural forms regularly developed into a monosyllable /iː(s)/, with later remodelling - compare the etymology of deus. This /iː/ was normally spelled as EI during and as II after the Republic; a disyllabic iī, spelled II, Iꟾ, appears in Silver Age poetry, while disyllabic eīs is only post-Classical. Other spellings include EEI(S), EIEI(S), IEI(S).
2The dat. singular is found spelled EIEI (here represented as ēī) and scanned as two longs in Plautus, but also as a monosyllable. The latter is its normal scansion in Classical. Other spellings include EEI, IEI.

Derived terms

  • identidem
  • identitās (see there for further derivatives)

Related terms

References

Further reading

  • “idem”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “idem”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • idem in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Pronoun

idem

  1. (demonstrative) idem, ditto (the aforesaid, the same)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin idem.

Adverb

idem

  1. idem

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

idem (Cyrillic spelling идем)

  1. first-person singular present of ići

Slovak

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈiɟem]

Verb

idem

  1. first-person singular present of ísť

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